Archive for June, 2006

From rags to online riches

I finally got my Noble’s Tunic. I was expecting to earn it from Kirin, but instead I’ve inherited it from a friend who’s just quit. As it happens, we killed Kirin last night so I think I can consider it earned anyway. (He was considerably easier this time around - NINs make better kiters and [...]


ByeSpace

You know, I don’t think I’ll be getting round to that last idea, since I’m making the bold anti-hipster move of deleting my MySpace account tonight. Farewell popularity contests, internet memes, lag, cameraphone posers, bloody terrible design, and most of all, Murdoch.
News Corp have decided to auction off the MySpace search function to the highest [...]


Hypothetical websites don’t change the world

Ooh, ooh, I thought of a great new Web 2.0 mashup idea. World, I give you the completely hypothetical Indierthanthou.com! In short, you enter your MySpace URL, it grabs all the bands from your music section, and looks them up on last.fm. Then it does some maths and comes up with a score for how [...]


BID ON RAID QUIZ

…is a headline in today’s Nottingham Evening Post (World News, p9). When will the madness of verbless tabloid monstrosities end?
“Cennydd in grammar probe outrage”.
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